As well among the Oscar foreign-language noms, this week you can catch just a single screening (Friday 7pm) at Carbon Arc of A Man Called Ove, a classic all-the-laughs, all-the-feels crowd-pleaser that pleased me as well at its Atlantic Film Festival screening. That’s followed at 9:30pm by Werewolf, the made-in-Cape-Breton substance-abuse drama that continues to get festival bumps, most recently a couple of weeks ago at the Berlinale, where it earned excellent notices. The film’s director, Cape Breton native Ashley McKenzie, will be present for a Q&A.

Fundy Cinema in Wolfville this Sunday has another story of a woman writer—a real-life one in this case. A Quiet Passion, the new film from Terence Davies, gives us the life of poet Emily Dickinson as portrayed by Cynthia Nixon, who impressed many critics and indeed me a couple of years ago with her stellar turn as the terminally-ill mother of James White. Fundy also has a Wednesday screening of surprise Best Picture Oscar winner Moonlight, which has returned to Halifax at Park Lane, but so far only for 3:40pm screenings (as of blog-posting—surely they will add more times?). The other notable out-of-town screening is Tuesday evening in Annapolis Royal at the King’s Theatre, which is presenting Julieta, the latest well-reviewed film from Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar.

Last week, Jackie came and went at Cineplex Park Lane; this week, perhaps an even bolder bio-pic by Pablo Larraìn, Neruda, plays Friday only at Carbon Arc. The creativity of these two films, writes David Fear, “gives credence to the growing notion that, by taking a more fragmented, expressionistic route, you actually get closer to nailing the complexity of a life famously lived.” Neruda was Chile’s entry this year for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

On Saturday, Carbon Arc has the Iranian film Inversion (presented in partnership with the Phoenix Cultural Center of Toronto—note the higher ticket price of $13). The film by Behnam Behzadi screened at last year’s Cannes festival in Un Certain Regard. “Nothing that happens in Inversion is overstated or even overtly dramatized, yet there’s an invisible tension that pulls us through the movie,” says Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman.

Tonight Cineplex Park Lane has the surprisingly well-engineered 3D conversion of Titanic (1997)—an actually watchable digital re-do for which Cameron spent over 60 weeks in 2011-12, going through the more than 260,000 frames of the film and giving notes. The original 2D version will screen at Park Lane and Dartmouth Crossing on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Park Lane Valentine’s throwback is The Princess Bride, about which Cary Elwes spilled quite a few production secrets a couple of years ago with a book about the making of the film.

Fundy Cinema in Wolfville on Wednesday has The Red Turtle, a Studio Ghibli production—by the Dutch-British director Michaël Dudok de Wit—that doesn’t follow the house style and yet bears Ghibli’s “strong sense of color, philosophy and symbolism” such that it has now been acknowledged with an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature. On Sunday, Fundy has 20th Century Women, so this might be the best viewing opportunity for Haligonians who missed it.

There still hasn’t been a Halifax screening of Maliglutit (Searchers), the new film from Zacharias Kunuk—who is still best known for the 2001 Caméra d’Or (Cannes first-feature prize) winning Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner—but thanks to Fundy Cinema you can see it this Wednesday in Wolfville. Not a remake per se of John Ford’s The Searchers, but a film that unapologetically uses it as source and outline, it played recently at the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto, where Kunuk and TIFF programmer Jesse Wente also did live commentary during a screening of Ford’s original.

Cineplex continues Flashback Film Fest through Thursday. Notables include Pulp Fiction, the 1994 film that launched Quentin Tarantino into the directorial-fame stratosphere, Monday and Thursday, and a Danny Boyle double-header on Wednesday with Shallow Grave (1995) and Trainspotting (1996).